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But is it art? Brooklyn artist plans to give birth in gallery

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Pregnant Performance Artist Plans Gallery Birth

“The Birth of Baby X” is an exhibit by artist Marni Kotak at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

A performance artist  is planning a month-long piece on her pregnancy that she hopes will end with her delivering the baby before an audience at a Brooklyn art gallery.

 ”The Birth of Baby X” is an exhibit from Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak, and she is setting up a birthing room at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, equipped with a bed, an inflatable birthing pool, a shower and a rocking chair.
With the baby’s due-date uncertain, the gallery is putting together a list of visitors to notify when she goes into labor. Kotak will be surrounded by an audience, but will also be supported by a midwife, a doula, and her husband, according to the New York Post. She told the paper that she sees human life as “the most profound work of art,” and she is “no more worried than I would be if I were having the baby at home or in a hospital.” Continue reading →

Harriet Hill and Jenny Steele MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY

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Harriet Hill and Jenny Steele
What: Harriet Hill and Jenny Steele – MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY
Where: Hatch Space, Unit A.104/6, Faircharm Trading Estate, 8 – 12 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3DX
When: Wed 19 – Sat 29 Oct 2011, Wed-Sun 12-6pm
Associated Events: Open Day Event: Sat 22 Oct 2011 12-6pm
Further Details:
-Visit the Hatchspace website
Map: View events on the map here
MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY is a 2 person exhibition by Harriet Hill and Jenny Steele that explores the in-habitation and use of space within the built environment of the Faircharm Trading Estate and the Hatch Space studios themselves. MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY aims to record, reflect and celebrate the current activity in these mixed-use spaces within this heterogeneous community.For MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY, Harriet Hill presents a sculptural work made as a response to the microcosm of Hatch Space studios. She works viscerally, with the particular, physical structure of the space and the idea of it as both a self contained gallery and an expanded corridor: a mutable interstice with doors leading off into the autonomous spaces of the artists studios. Continue reading →

Toby Mott: This Means Everything

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12 October – 6 November 2011 (Private view: Tuesday 11 October, 6.30 – 10pm)

New Contemporary is delighted to present a solo exhibition of the work of British artist Toby Mott. The show is comprised of a collection of new paintings addressing our culture’s present preoccupation with fame and success versus the historical background of nihilism and anarchy as epitomised by the punk movement.

This Means Everythingis an encounter with Toby Mott’s current fixation with dichotomy. There is a paradox in our society, youth culture is rife with displays of exuberant and creative individualism and yet is still devoted to commercial luxury brands. Notions of nihilism and anarchy as epitomised by the punk movement in the late 1970s, and recently by displays of youth unrest and rioting in major UK towns, are juxtaposed in Mott’s psyche with society’s present preoccupation with fame and luxury – hinted at by the global success of television shows such as Big Brother and the X Factor (from where the exhibition title takes its cue).

The exhibition presents a series of mixed media paintings utilising mechanised processes (screen printing and metallic foils) and incorporating luxurious elements (diamond dust, glitter, etc.) against a backdrop of large-scale iconic punk imagery. Canvasses, heavily layered and superimposed with saturated colour, reproduction and duplication, embrace techniques Toby acquired in fashion manufacturing. Animal prints, metallic foil screen printing and glitter reference luxury brands (Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Hermes) while explosive lines of solid colour in hues associated with these high end fashion names (Hermes orange, Gucci red) are drawn freehand – conveying the one off creativity, lyricism, energy and urbanism of hip hop and punk rock.

Mott seeks to create a conscious collision between the extremely political and anarchic punk iconography and the mass produced luxury fashion labels observed on London’s Bond Street – symbols of success that by their very multiplicity signify a death to individualism. The paradox, endemic in contemporary culture, is ironically represented here in the ultimate luxury commodity; art.

After a break from painting of over fourteen years (his last exhibition, for Maureen Paley Interim Art, was in 1997), Mott has returned to the canvas with the unabashed wit and rebellious spirit that have always characterised his work.

About the artist:
Toby Victor Mott is a British artist and designer best known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists’ collective active in the 1980s, and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico. More recently he has won critical acclaim for the Mott Collection, an archive of UK punk rock ephemera that includes over 1,000 posters, flyers and fanzines.

Mott was born in London in 1964. In the early 1980s he lived at the Carburton Street squats, a centre of artistic activity at the time – other residents included Boy George, Marilyn, (singer) Cerith Wyn Evans, Fiona Russell-Powell and Mark Lebon. During this period Mott appeared in a number of films made by the British director Derek Jarman, notably The Angelic Conversation. Continue reading →

EAST POP A three day art event

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bring East London’s best to the West 29 September – 2 October 2011

EAST POP WEST is a celebration of contemporary creative collaborations, during a three-day event at the 20,000 sq ft former Innocent Smoothies HQ. It will be a rare chance for West London to engage directly with East London’s artists and designers.

EAST POP is a living document of what is happening now and gives exposure to art and design collectives who have used their strength as groups of creative individuals to produce dynamic exhibitions, live art events, products and publications.

Adam Dant, Artswipe, Bert Industries, Blink Art, Carl Burgess, Cedric Christie, Christopher Duncan, Claire Howells,ContainerPlus, Dan Canyon of SPINE TV, The Dark Times, Darren Coffield, David Wilson, Decima International Art Projects, The Department of Memory, Don’t Tell Stories, Dr D, East London Furniture, Found Art Collective, Hackney WickEd, Hato Press, Joesph Mann, KeelerTornero, Le Gun, Liam Scully, Macarena Yanez, Marco, Martin Sexton, Martin Wollerstam, Material, Max Hattler, Metric Collective, New Found Original, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Pure Evil, RART, RAX, Raul Pina, Rodolph de Salis, Ronzo, Root 5, /seconds, TheUnconsciousCollective, This Is It Collective + EAST POP films curated by Alexa Kusber

EAST POP is a project initiated by Red Gallery with artist/curators Alice Herrick and Kate Kotcheff.Red Gallery have been documenting the East London art scene and in 2010 produced the East End Promise exhibition and catalogue, a record of the area from 1985 – 2000, created by those that lived through this transformative time.
Admission price: £5 Concessions £3 Under 12s Free

Date: September 30th – October 2nd 2011

Location: Unit 1, Goldhawk Industrial Estate
Vinery Way (off Brackenbury Road)
London W6 0BE

www.eastpop.co.uk

A Wing Where Contemporary Art Can Converse

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Morris Louis’s “Theta” (1961), left, with Lynda Benglis’s “Wing” (1970).

Last weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, celebrated the opening of its new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which would seem to represent a major commitment to collecting and exhibiting the art of our time. It should be noted, however, that the new wing is not actually new. It is the old, I. M. Pei-designed wing from 1981, formerly used for rotating exhibitions, now refurbished, repurposed and renamed. And while a lot more contemporary art is now on view, you don’t get the feeling that the old, small-city provincialism has been replaced by a new, fiercely ambitious cosmopolitanism.

The main attraction is a 12,000-square-foot, oblong gallery, a big-box space occupied by a sprawling, uneven, crowded hodge-podge of about 240 works from the museum’s permanent collection, augmented by some blue-chip loans. Continue reading →

Street tours with the homeless and rooftop views of performances on trams at the quirky Melbourne Fringe Festival

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The unusual settings of rooftops, trams, carparks and dimly-lit lane ways are about to become home to Melbourne’s festival of eccentricities, art and independent creativity as the Melbourne Fringe Festival explodes across the Australian city.

The Melbourne Fringe Festival traverses the boundaries of art, cinema, theater, dance, fashion and music. The three-week long open-access festival fosters Melbourne’s thriving arts community, providing opportunities for both emerging and established artists to present their works in a range of strange and not so strange locations.

“In this, the 29th year of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, you can stand on a roof and watch a performance pass by on a tram, take a tour of Melbourne’s streets with a homeless person, and see a show with the saints and sinners in St Paul’s Cathedral,” reveals the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Continue reading →

Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

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The Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, by Charles Moore & Urban Innovations Group

Irony in the soul: the Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans, by Charles Moore & Urban Innovations Group. Photograph: Norman Mcgrath

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7
Starts 24 September Until 15 January 2012

The Sony building stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and 56th Street in midtown Manhattan. At 197m, it’s a little higher than its immediate neighbours, but there are at least 60 taller buildings in the city. It is an inoffensive, creamy colour. At ground level there’s a spectacular atrium. Yet when it was completed in 1984, it was considered the most shocking building in the world.

The reason is the top. You have to walk a block or so away to get a sense of it. The building, originally known after its first corporate owner, AT&T, is crowned by a broken pediment; a circular space has been carved out of the apex of the triangle which tops the façade. It’s a simple, rather beautiful gesture. It is also a huge act of betrayal by the architect and the most visible trace on the New York skyline of postmodernism, a cultural current that is the subject of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, a major new exhibition at the V&A.

Why betrayal? The architect was Philip Johnson, who in 1932 had curated an extraordinary architectural show at the Museum of Modern Art. Images and models of buildings by Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and others led a generation of architects to make an absolute break with the styles of the past and embrace the tenets of modernism, chief among which was the idea that form should follow function. Johnson termed this new wave the “international style”, a name which stuck as the skylines of major cities (notably Chicago) were transformed by constructions of plate glass and structural steel, buildings which banished decoration, mere skin and bones enclosing volumes of space. Continue reading →

AUTO ITALIA LIVE 24th September – 8th October Every Saturday 7pm

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Auto Italia LIVE: Episode 1 Promo from Auto Italia on Vimeo.

 

Open from 7pm: Broadcast LIVE at 8pm

This Saturday 24th September

Nathan Budzinski
Benedict Drew
Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil)

Narrated by:
Saul Reichlin

With an introduction performed by:
Robert Carter, Tim Ivison, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell, Eddie Peake, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Julia Tcharfas, Lorenzo Tebano, Jess Wiesner and Charlie Woolley

The series can be watched as part of the live studio audience or via the website www.autoitaliasoutheast.org

Auto Italia South East presents Auto Italia Live: an artist-run TV series, performed before a studio audience and broadcast live over the Internet. Working in collaboration with Auto Italia a wide variety of artists will produce new work through weekly episodes, engaging directly with the format of live Television and a history of artists using broadcast media platforms to distribute work.

Featuring a full camera crew, lighting technicians, directors, performers, production designers and set builders, artists will engage with all aspects of production opening the space for criticality and intervention within the medium. The series aims to experiment with new possibilities to engage in contemporary broadcast and internet culture whilst also responding to the familiar tropes and formulas within television programming.

The apparatus of TV and the technical infrastructure will allow for dialogue and exchange with images, actions, performances and experiences. Covering ideas of ‘edutainment’, to permacultures and ecology that surround the idea of live television the project will engage with how live TV has changed our understanding of culture and public space. Each episode will investigate a range of approaches exploring the expanded notion of the televised live performance, the live soap opera and factual, documentary presentation, through the choreography inherent in both performance and camera movements, and the narrative implicit in the existence of objects within a set.

The studio space will be open to the public both for the weekly broadcasts and also at specific times during rehearsals in the preceding weeks. The whole process of the live broadcast and production will be made public, engaging with audiences in the space and tuning in online. In an ever increasing landscape of broadcast media and ‘accessible’ web platforms this project aims to emerge within pre-existing web communities allowing artists to make and distribute new work and create new contexts and audiences around their ideas.

Produced collaboratively by artists, Auto Italia LIVE aims to reclaim a space within the television format that has increasingly lost its experimental aspect. The project will draw from figures including Nam June Paik that dealt with the risk taking inherent in live TV, Warhol TV bringing a community of artists together and Jef Cornelis in terms of his pioneering productions for Belgium Television in particular shows such as Container. Questioning the demise of risk taking in mainstream cultural programming within the history of British Television, the project  aims to provoke discussion and challenge how artists might work together to create new work, examining how dialogues are negotiated and tested within this unique context.

Bound up within the collaborative approach to working and new technological developments, issues of copyright and collective authorship will be examined. New documents will be compiled that will represent the best practice for commissioning on Digital Media platforms, in ways that benefit the artists over the distributer. These will reflect the possibility of artists working together, producing work independently from the demands of the gallery or a standard art context.

Participating Artists

Nathan Budzinski, Benedict Drew, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Eddie Peake, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Rachel Pimm, Lorenzo Tebano, Robert Carter, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil)

In collaboration with: Theo Cook, Georgio Bosisio, Sonia Rodriguez Serrano, Alex Lightman, Mc Death, George Moustakas, Luke Collins, Robin Stuart, Amy Friend, Ciara Halpin, Mette Juhl, Sam Valiant, Matt Welch, Nicola Sersale

Grayson Perry: How I went behind the scenes at the British Museum

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Grayson Perry, as Claire, outside the British Museum in London, ahead of his show The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the Observer

I was approaching 50 and doing OK. Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in Europe, America, New Zealand and Japan. I’d also been asked to curate shows, and had made work to go with my selections from historical collections. I realised I could just slot into a very nice contemporary art career trajectory of one-man shows in beautiful designer art galleries, the odd biennale, a growing stack of monographs – in short, a good art career that ends with every good collection in the world wanting a signature piece. Then I sat down and thought: “What sort of exhibition do I really want to put on?”

I had called my last big show, which travelled to Japan and Luxembourg, My Civilisation. The territory my civilisation occupied was my mind, which was laid out for visitors to see in my print Map of an Englishman, hung in the first room. I thought mischievously that all civilisations have a religion, so I made my teddy bear, Alan Measles, the leader of my childhood universe, a god. Continue reading →

Art in the First Person

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Art in the First Person
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
www.sva.edu/events

School of Visual Arts announces the Fall 2011 Art in the First Person lecture series. Offering a 360? perspective on art today, speakers include: artists Rochelle Feinstein, George Gittoes, Liz Magic Laser, Carolee Schneemann and Alan Sonfist; critics David Cohen, Linda Nochlin and Robert Storr; and curators Elisabeth Biondi and Peter Eleey.

Panel Discussion on “The Influentials”
With Suzanne McClelland, Marilyn Minter, Judy Pfaff, Lindsay Pollock and Mika Rottenberg
Tuesday, September 13, 7pm
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “The Influentials,” August 26–September 21

Sabine Flach: Art as Knowledge Production
Thursday, September 15, 6:30pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

The Role of Women in Photography: Are We There Yet?
Thursday, September 22, 6:30pm
With Vince Aletti, Elisabeth Biondi, Martine Fougeron, Lisa Kereszi, Lyle Rexer and Sarah Silver
Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department in partnership with Professional Women Photographers

Robert Storr: Making It Visible
Thursday, September 22, 7pm
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department

Toward an Ethics in Art Writing
Tuesday, October 4, 7pm
With Adam Kleinman, Quinn Latimer, Patricia Milder, Matthew Schum and Aimee Walleston
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department

Maureen Connor: How to Be an Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, October 6, 7pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

Artists’ Rights and Wrongs: Property and Propriety, Invention and Intention
Tuesday, October 11, 7pm
With David Cohen, Karen Gover and Walter Robinson
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department

 

Susan Bright and W.M. Hunt: Unseen in The Unseen Eye
Wednesday, October 12, 7pm
Presented by the BFA Photography Department

 

Janelle Lynch: Los Jardines de Mexico
Thursday, October 13, 7pm
Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department

Carolee Schneemann: Mysteries of The Iconographies
Thursday, October 13, 7 pm
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department

The Nelson Manobar
Tuesday, October 18, 7pm
With Jimbo Blachly and Lytle Shaw, editors of The Chadwick Family Papers
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department

Roslyn Bernstein and Shael Shapiro: Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo
Thursday, October 20, 6:30pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

Edward Sorel in Conversation with James McMullan
Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “The Masters Series: Edward Sorel,” October 7–November 5, 2011

Mitchell Joachim: Future Ecological Cities
Horst Bredekamp: The Vector Under the Line: Drawings by Galileo, Campanella, Merian
Friday, October 28, 6:30pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department in conjunction with the conference Embodied Fantasies, October 28–30, 2011

The Reluctant Doctorate: PhD Programs for Artists?
Thursday, November 3, 7pm
With Ellen K. Levy, Victoria Vesna, PhD; Tim Gilman-Sevcik, Ute Meta Bauer; Mary Anne Staniszewski, PhD
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

George Gittoes: The Miscreants of Taliwood
Thursday, November 3, 7pm
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department

Anna Gaskell: SOSW Ballet
Tuesday, November 8, 7pm
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.

Livia Tenzer
Thursday, November 10, 6:30pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

Liz Magic Laser: I Feel Your Pain
Sunday, November 13, 4–9pm
Monday, November 14, 4–9pm
Co-presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department, BFA Fine Arts Department and Performa

Peter Eleey: A Picture Held Us Captive
Monday, November 14, 6:30 pm
Presented by the MA Critical Theory and the Arts Department

Alan Sonfist
Tuesday, November 15, 7pm
Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department

The Talkers: A Panel Moderated by Rochelle Feinstein
Tuesday, December 6, 7pm
Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department

Linda Nochlin: Géricault and Goya and Images of Misery
Thursday, December 8, 7pm
Presented by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department

Admission is free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Information is subject to change. Please confirm at www.sva.edu/events or 212.592.2010.

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